What's your vision?
Well, I mean, the last year has been transition.
I'm kind of done working and running companies now.
So now I'm helping out a lot.
I've got a few companies down here in the islands that I'm helping learn how to
market and grow. They have a really huge marketing need down here.
So it's kind of fun teaching people about QR.
I mean, there's businesses that aren't even on Google down here.
So it's fun.
I throw networking events and meet business owners and help them grow and
teach them. And this island has like 30,000 people,
but 2.5 million tourists.
And that market is just so underutilized.
These tourists could be spending so much more money down here if we just told
them where and how. They're on cruise ships, they're flying in,
they're ready to spend. It's an interesting island and culture,
but it's fun. The people that I work with,
you know, one of them's a nonprofit like foster home.
So I'm helping teach them how to market and how to get more donations and throw
some events for them so they can raise funds for the,
they're the only foster home on the island. So.
Oh wow. And that's super important if they're the only one.
Yeah. The other one, I guess closed down like probably almost a year ago. Yeah.
Okay. So you didn't know anything about their need until you actually got out
there. Is that correct?
No, I'd never visited the island. So I picked it,
I guess I picked it cause it was one of the territories.
So I wanted to come play soccer. I wanted somewhere that was a little more,
I guess less regulated, less like Colorado.
And so I did a little research, you know, I was thinking Guam maybe, or, you know,
American Samoa, but then I, I wanted to be closer to my family.
My dad's health is fading.
So I want to be somewhere that's not a 14 hour flight to San Francisco and then
another flight. And so, oh,
and another thing was the frontier go wild pass flies here.
So that means free flights for a year so I can get back and forth easily.
You know, if I was living in Guam around trip flights,
probably like 1500 to 2000 each time. So that would add up pretty quickly.
So, you know, I'm going to say, go ahead.
No, no, no. I keep going.
Yeah. So I was like St. Thomas, you know,
if I can fly there pretty easily and very cheaply and you know,
if something happens, I can get back to my family pretty quick.
I go back probably once every month or two and like to surprise my mom,
surprise her on Easter, surprise her on Mother's Day,
surprise my whole family at Christmas. That was pretty funny.
We were on a big Zoom video chat with like 10 of my family,
like wishing me happy birthday and Merry Christmas.
And then I just walked right in the door with our favorite meal.
What? Oh, that's awesome.
You see my mom and my sister's faces are like, Hey, what? Why is he holding,
why is he holding my nephew? Why is he holding my son?
That is awesome. And that's, that's super important is to be able to make it back.
I commend you on wanting to stay close and, and doing the surprising thing.